Quote of the week:

“It is a sad day in America when a coalition of states must go to federal court to defend the Clean Air Act against the misguided actions of the federal agency created to protect the environment,” the New York attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, said. “But in this matter, the E.P.A. is standing with polluters instead of with the people it is supposed to protect, and the states have no choice but to take this action.”

The United States Environmental Protection Agency, thanks to the Bush Administration, has:

* announced that it was closing pending investigations into more than 100 power plants and factories for violating the Clean Air Act

* dropping 13 cases in which it had already made a determination that the law had been violated.
Got to love that environmental PROTECTION agency!